LIVE: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies during Senate hearing on AI oversight — 05/16/23
The Senate Judiciary Committees Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law held a hearing on the oversight of artificial intelligence (AI). While AI advancements can bring positive changes such a...
Durable entities - Azure Functions
Entity functions allow for reading and updating small pieces of state, also known as durable entities. They provide a means of scaling out applications and are accessed via a unique identifier, the en...
Building Secure Microservices in Azure - Jimmy Bogard - NDC London 2023
The speaker, Jimmy Bogard, introduces himself and provides links to his social media and blog. He explains that he works as a consultant, building applications and systems for clients. He discusses a ...
React component to render markdown.
This package is a React component that can be given a string of markdown that it’ll safely render to React elements. It allows passing plugins to change how markdown is transformed to React elements a...
Backward Compatible Database Changes
Learn about safely using the contract, migrate, and expand pattern to make database schema changes without downtime and data loss. By deploying changes to two critical systems at once, such as your da...
Python Variables Explained: Memory, Mutability, and More
In this blog post, we will dive into the world of Python variables. From memory to mutability, we will explore the fundamental concepts of Python variables in-depth. We will cover reference counting, ...
Understanding Python Decorators and How to Use Them Effectively
Python decorators are a crucial tool for any Python programmer seeking to improve code readability and maintainability. They let you extend the functionality of functions and methods elegantly, withou...
Just-in-time Architecture • Macklin Hartley • YOW! 2022
The speaker introduces themselves and discusses their company, vgw, a Perth-based startup turned non-startup. They explain that their talk is meant to cover topics for a new and diverse team, includin...
AI Test Kitchen - A place to experience and give feedback on Googles latest AI technologies
AI Test Kitchen is a platform that allows people to experience and provide feedback on Googles latest AI technologies. The goal of this initiative is to learn, improve, and innovate responsibly on AI ...
OpenAI Peeks into the “Black Box” of Neural Networks with New Research
In a new research paper, OpenAI details a technique that uses its GPT-4 language model to write explanations for the behavior of neurons in its older GPT-2 model. This step forward for interpretabilit...
Case Study of Future Me Campaign: Using Artificial Intelligence to Visualize Retirement
In this case study, Michał Bucholc explores how ING Bank Poland used the power of artificial intelligence to encourage clients to think about their financial future and visualize retirement. The Futur...
Domain-Driven Design: Bridging the Gap Between Business and Technology
Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a software development approach introduced by Eric Evans that focuses on creating software systems closely aligned with the business domain and its needs. DDD emphasizes ...
Prereq Flow - Course Planning Aid for University of Washington Students
Prereq Flow is an unofficial course planning aid that helps University of Washington undergraduate students visualize courses and prerequisites for their degrees. The application is built with React F...
Reagraph: WebGL Network Graphs for React
Reagraph is a high-performance network graph visualization built in WebGL for React. It features node sizing based on attributes, page rank, centrality, and custom, as well as light and dark mode with...
Google Keynote (Google I/O ‘23)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai opened the companys annual I/O developer conference by outlining how AI is helping to drive the tech giants future. Pichai said that generative AI is redefining Googles core p...
Build your React-based CRUD applications with refine
refine is an open-source, headless web application framework for the rapid development of web applications. It eliminates repetitive tasks demanded by CRUD operations and provides industry standard so...
Google Launches AI-Centric Coding Tools, Including Competitor to GitHub’s Copilot
At its annual I/O developer conference, Google launched a variety of AI-centric coding tools, including its own version of GitHub’s Copilot. Google introduced a chat tool to ask questions about coding...
How to start using .NET Background Services
Background services are ideal for many scenarios, especially if your users are willing to wait for results. This post explores the .NET hosting model and the BackgroundService class, which is a base c...
Language models can explain neurons in language models
Language models have become more capable and broadly deployed but still have limited internal understanding. Interpretability research aims to uncover additional information by looking inside the mode...
Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation | Lex Fridman Podcast #376
Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist, mathematician, and founder of Wolfram Research, discusses the integration of Chat GPT, Wolfram Alpha, and Wolfram Language. Chat GPT is focused on language, using ...